Galleries R Us with Preston Street Union

Presented by Preston Street Union, Galleries R Us is a modular, itinerant, wearable artspace space appearing at multiple sites during Art Week Exeter (AWE). 

Over the course of AWE, Preston Street Union will roam the streets of Exeter, constructing a temporary artspace at various points of interest and activity. We have also commissioned a series of microresidencies to take place in and around the space.  

Galleries R Us is made in response to the diminishing arts infrastructure in Exeter, specifically the loss of institutions dedicated to the teaching, production and presentation of contemporary art. 

Preston Street Union is an affiliation of artists in and around Exeter who meet to explore collaborative processes in the context of contemporary art practice. Art Week Exeter 2018 runs from 22nd to 28th May.

Details of the Galleries R Us programme can be found at https://www.facebook.com/events/950369175144360/

Reading to trees on the East Devon Way

Burned Trees - Woodbury (video still) | Gabrielle Hoad & Megan Calver | 2018

I've been invited to create a number of public engagement activities to celebrate 25 years of the East Devon Way, a 40-mile walking route between Exmouth and Lyme Regis that runs through the East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)

Read (to) the trees is an extension of work originally made for Organic Arts -  Return by 24/09/17 - and later revisited with Megan Calver as part of Fatal Exchanges. I will be inviting the public to get to know the local trees by reading aloud to them and observing how they respond.

And in a new iteration, Turn (the) leaves, Megan Calver and I will bring together a group of people and trees for simultaneous shared reading and response. Working from a simple set of instructions, they will be part of a new, temporary work of art made by reading aloud. We'll then present a version of this work at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton, in the autumn.

Art on the East Devon Way artists include Anne-Marie Culhane, Justin Quinnell, Jenny Mellings and Tony Whitehead.

Art on the East Devon Way activity map, various locations May - September 2018.

Art on the East Devon Way exhibition, 8 September - 27 October 2018, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Elmfield House, Dowell Street, Honiton, Devon EX14 1LX.